Sri Lanka Beats South Africa By 6 Wickets:-
Faf du Plessis, the South African captain again winning the toss in the third T20 match, decided to bat first.SA lost their wicket in the first over.Faf du Plessis coming at number third position played sensibly with scoring 85 runs of just 65 balls.SaA were going smoothly till the 6th over when Q de Kock got lbw by making just 16 runs of 19 balls.Now the innings were in the hand if J.Duminy and the SA captain.They both together put 112 runs in just 73 balls.SA were 163 for 3 after the 20th over and SL had to get 164 runs in order to win.
Sri Lanka got off to a flying start and they were 67/1 after 6 overs with M.Jayawardena getting out in the 6th over scoring 33 runs of just 16 balls.SL second wicket also fell quickly.Now SL were going slow so as to reach the target as near as posssible.With Dilshan on the other hand played sensibly and not trying too hard.After the 15th over SL were 118/3 and they needed 48 runs off 30 balls.Perara had decided to play big shots and in the 17th over SL scored 11 runs and in the very next over SL scored 21 runs.Dilshan in the 19th over hit a six to win the final match.
Scorecard:-
South Africa Batting:-
H Davids lbw b N Kulasekara- 0(1)
Q de Kock (†) lbw b A Mendis- 16(19) (3*4)
F du Plessis (C) b S Lakmal- 85(65) (10*4,3*6)
J Duminy- 51*(34) (3*4,2*6)
A de Villiers – 1*(1)
D Miller – DNB
D Wiese – DNB
W Parnell – DNB
M Morkel – DNB
I Tahir -DNB
L Tsotsobe-DNB
Extras (b 0, lb 1, w 9, nb 0) 10
Total 163/3 (20 Over) RR: 8.15
Bowling– N Kulasekara 4-37-1(2w), S Lakmal 4-29-1(1w), S Senanayake 4-20-0(1w), T Perera 1-10-0, A Mendis 4-31-1(2), A Mathews 1-14-0, T Dilshan 2-21-0
F.O.W – 1-0 (H Davids, 0.1 ov), 2-45 (Q de Kock, 7.2 ov), 3-157 (F du Plessis, 19.3 ov)
Sri Lanka Batting:-
T Dilshan – 74*(51) (9*4,2*6)
M Jayawardena c A de Villiers b W Parnell – 33(16) (7*4)
K Perera c W Parnell b D Wiese – 1(4)
D Chandimal (C, †) st Q de Kock b I Tahir – 14(18) (1*4)
A Mathews b D Wiese – 14(10) (2*4)
T Perera – 25*(11) (3*4,1*6)
L Thirimanne – DNB
N Kulasekara – DNB
S Senanayake – DNB
S Lakmal – DNB
A Mendis – DNB
Extras (b 0, lb 1, w 1, nb 1) 3
Total 164/4 (18.1 Over) RR: 9.02
Bowling:- L Tsotsobe 4-49-0(1nb), M Morkel 3.1-33-0, W Parnell 3-37-1, I Tahir 4-20-1, D Wiese 4-24-2
FoW:– 1-67 (M Jayawardena, 5.5 ov), 2-71 (K Perera, 7.1 ov), 3-100 (D Chandimal, 12.3 ov), 4-123 (A Mathews, 15.3 ov)